There is nothing to gain by being pessimistic when your team reaches the playoffs, though that’s never stopped Pittsburgh Steelers fans. After all, this year, they are a seventh seed, from which position no team has yet won a game, and starting their third-string quarterback because their first two quarterbacks weren’t good enough. They are also without their best player in OLB T.J. Watt.
Suffice it to say that it’s not unreasonable to imagine things going wrong this weekend. But if things go very wrong, they could exit this round with the NFL’s longest active postseason losing streak, a title I imagine they have never owned before.